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open"Been There, Shaped History" but the historical event is also fictional Webcomic
Basically, a seemingly innocuous character is revealed to be responsible for an in-universe historical event or myth.
- In Don't Worry, Dear NPC!, Slaki is introduced as a reclusive inventor, an outcast in Creta Village with aspirations everyone else finds bizarre. It turns out he invented the monster-repelling lanterns the village believes are a gift from God, making him personally responsible for the village's ability to thrive in the middle of rampant monster territory, and by extension the Nightlight Festival they hold in celebration of that. The reason he's treated like a stranger instead of a local hero is because of a spell that wiped everyone's memories of his existence and deeds.
openCan Only Draw One Animal Webcomic
A webcomic I love dearly, Faux Pas, has a habit of drawing the same basic, vaguely catlike 'face' for all the cast, which includes foxes, cats, rabbits, a horse... They differentiate species primarily by nose length, ear shape, length of cheek fluff, and adding visible whiskers to the cat characters. But it's increasingly obvious they have the same face design.
Would it go under Only Six Faces or Generic Cuteness?
openSexy Born Yesterday Webcomic
A type of character who, despite having the body of an attractive adult, has all the naivete of a sheltered child. Sometimes they really were born yesterday as an adult.
Female versions of this will often be rather sexualised, while male versions of this will be much more Adorkable.
Doesn't always have to be someone who was literally born yesterday, it can be something like another species, a mythical creature, alien, or a person who was sheltered.
openCountry Names as Names Webcomic
I'm trying to find the official name of the trope where the country's name is used for the name of the people who live there, such as we do with Russians being from Russia, as an example.
openNo Complete Archive Webcomic
Is there a trope (I'm guessing Trivia) for when a webcomic is available in multiple places, but none of them are fully complete?
For example, Erma can be found on both Tapas and Webtoon, but each has some strips the other lacks (primarily earlier seasonal ones in Webtoon's case, but also at least one main strip, and most things after some year in Tapas's case).note I haven't actually done the digging to find all the discrepancies, so I don't know the exact numbers here.
openMissing webcomic strips Webcomic
Does a webcomic which is missing a few pages of its initial run (maybe following a change of hosting site) counts as the Missing Episode trivia trope, or is there something more specific?
openA trope where someone survives from falling to their death Webcomic
I am a looking for a trope for the webcomic This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union! where someone almost falls to their death but luckily survived when they fell down on somebody else cancelling the impact and avoid getting too many injuries or death, please find the trope.
open Identify a trope for a webcomic Webcomic
Excuse me, I need someone to help me identify a trope from the recent chapter of This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union!, where a flashback story has a girl who refuses to marry a duke who is older than her. So, the in-laws uses a demon spider that is used to manipulate the girl in her sleep to either accept her marriage to the duke or let her world end up in chaos and will no longer bear the title of duchess.
This however made the woman accept the chaos part because she doesn’t want to marry an older person, so she wakes up and begins to murder her husband.
Can you help me identify this trope and do you think that its a Gone Horribly Right trope?
Edited by Rosieanders68openRandom Title for this Webcomic
What's the Trope for whenever a character looks up and only their mouth is shown on their face? (Basically, whenever a Garfield character looks up. For Instance.)
openMore webcomic of female heroes with prehensile hair powers? Webcomic
Can you find more webcomics of female heroes with prehensile hair powers please?
openReplacing a trope for a new one relating to For Want Of A Nail Webcomic
Now that the trope For Want Of A Nail has become a disambiguation page, I would like to know if there is a replacement trope for this trope summary for the series This Isekai Maid is Forming a Union! and here is the description
"Bridgette telling Anette off for her slapping her maids as a show of superiority leads to Anette both realizing Bridgette is a reincarnator and also having a huge moment of realization of what she became, which leads to events playing out far differently than they should have, especially because this allows for Bridgette to tell Anette about Lord Demeter's killing spree of Limpetta servants and only make Anette more determined to break off with him."
So kindly find a trope for this one to replace the original trope For Want Of A Nail.
Edited by Rosieanders68openMore appropriate than Magic Genetics? Webcomic
As I understand the trope description, Magic Genetics is: 'magic' is introduced into a person to allow them to do things they wouldn't ordinarily be able to do. So...
In Webcomic.Grrl Power, Dabbler explains that Succubi were originally created as living, mana-powered "blow-up dolls"; eventually they became their own self-sustaining race (with some 'feature creep' in the meantime, such as being used as spies and assassins); at least some of them became able to actually cast magic spells. Also, they were designed to drain mana beyond what they could produce/access on their own as a form of Cast from Hit Points, so that being bonded to a "master" that can supply mana ensures loyalty.
Is this Magic Genetics, or something else?
Edited by CurledUpWithDakkaopenA question previously put on AskTheTropers Webcomic
Okay so this is kinda complicated, but in the media of an entry i'm writing, there's an anime that literally just looks like it's a game the creator made called KAIMA. Does this just fall under Fictional Media, Game Within a Game, Show Within a Show, Fictional Video Game, or is it something more?
Edited by CoraCreatesopenA character who others are attracted to because of a magical/etc quality? Webcomic
Is there a trope that describes scenarios where a character has an innate “attractive” quality, not because they’re objectively attractive but because of magic/science/etc? (The example I’m asking about is a case of Bizarre Alien Biology where a character is perpetually cold due to a condition, and it happens that this species is subconsciously aroused by the cold, if that helps.) Sorry for the clunky ask, I don’t exactly know how to word this!
openA character yearns to return to a "paradise" Webcomic
I've been trying to create the page for a webcomic I really like and appreciate, and when I started I was sure this would be an existing trope with a page.
Basically, the idea of this trope is that a character has been in a "paradise", a place where their desires were satisfied, but had to leave it, either as a part of The Call, a moral objection to some dark secret of the paradise, or whatever else.
Then, after leaving, the character is experiencing deep longing to return, despite their better judgment. They might find themselves daydreaming, going through withdrawal symptoms as if the paradise were a physical drug, or actually going through the first steps of going back before stopping themselves, or maybe they don't stop themselves at all, and completely give in after enough time in agonizing yearning.
I'll keep looking, but if anyone could either point me in the direction of a trope or confirm this trope doesn't yet exist on the wiki, that would be very helpful.
openReal-Person Cameo? Webcomic
Question: If Neil deGrasse Tyson appears in a webcomic
, does that count as a Real-Person Cameo, or is it a different trope?
openSilent Sorrow Webcomic
When there aren't any onomatopias or speech bubbles, but it's all still almost audible somehow.
openA character stumble upon a few plot points that hint at a bigger story. Webcomic
Simply put, a character (not the protagonist, hero, nor "chosen one") stumbles upon a few plot points that hint at a much bigger story, but it isn't touched upon for awhile until later on the story. The trope I'm trying to find might be even multiple tropes together. Stumbled Into the Plot might fit the bill, but it isn't precise enough for me.
Edited by GoingBatty

(Category is web, but this can apply just as well in print)
I have recently encountered a couple comic gags of a character's speech and thought bubbles being swapped, and I'm wondering if this is something we have in some form, or if I should go stumble to the Launchpad.
(very mildly nsfw) example
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